Yes, there is a party he'll be going to like this (dressed in ancestors clothes, that scene's done), and I'm thinking he'll be in a setting like this later in the book, so I'm considering reasons. So far I've kept the Celtic outfits the same in Laev's book.

I know, fifteen years, but things change slowly...

I'd hoped to have it in by Oct 10, and that won't happen due to the challenges I've faced this year.

Hope the cover will fit the plot more than the one for Heart Journey (are the cover artists informed of the plot before they work on the cover? or, maybe, they like to go agains it?) the fellow in that cover(HJ),doesn't fit the elegant and sofisticated gentleman you describe in your book, but - forgive me for this - would be closer to representing Helena on a bad hair day and with a "beard rash" after a romp with one of her casual lover/camp visitors.